Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coast to coast. Yes, sir. After I've studied a little with my maestro, that's what I am going to do. There's some talk about a tour of the Associated Harvard Clubs circuit first. You'll have to ask my manager about that. But then I'll set out. And I shan't stop until I stand upon the shores of the Pacific...
...debate, which is sponsored jointly by the Harvard Liberal Club and the Harvard Socialist Club, will be open to the public. Twenty minutes have been set aside during which members of the audience who so desire may ask questions of either speaker...
...made it difficult for him: ran off with him in spite of, or because of, his wife; then left him in the lurch because, she discovered it was the cynic she "really loved." The idealist snatched this opportunity to make the final sacrifice for his spearhead of beauty, and set out upon a raging sea, heroic in a catboat. At the moment of wreck he suddenly realized the folly of his romanticism and grabbed a drifting spar. At daybreak he was rescued by contemptuous fishermen. And so to bed with a cold and a fright, the disillusioned young...
...Harkness has made a. noise like Santa Claus, but all the university serfs got out of him was a new set of work-shops...
...grouping authors and styles it is not necessary to be bothered too literally with dates. Emily Dickinson, for example, is a decidedly modern poet, terse, brief, never wordy, sinning, if in any way, in the opposite degree. Let us set her up to begin with, a woman poet fittingly the cornerstone of our modern "Gentleman's Library." We can follow along then rather briskly with A. E. Housman, W. H. Davies, Hodgson, Robert Frost, de la Mare. They are conventional but they would have shocked the lady's father and grandfather. Then too there is Hardy, a link between three...